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Combustive tissue in three scenes (interspliced)
2023
4K Digital Video, color, foley sound
15:16 min

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Combustive tissue in three scenes (interspliced) cuts between three scenes to look at decomposition and recomposition of social tissues as sculptural processes of fission and fusion, in terms of how energy sources are both converted and redistributed.

The first sequence focuses on an island north of Scotland and the population of sheep inhabiting the shoreline, forced between the perimeter drystone wall and the North Sea. Without access to grass, the sheep have calibrated their eating patterns to low tide and eat the island's surplus of brown kelp as it is no longer burned for the UK's glass industry.
The second scene shows anti-regime fighters in Qatana, Syria as they mold and cast mortar shells with the surrounding soil and as they produce an instructional video to demonstrate for others how to also do so.
The third scene re-tells the martyrdom of activist and Orthodox priest Fadi Haddad, killed in Qatana in 2012. The script, based on his church’s archive, takes the actor to recount how when TNT was first being developed, it was being done so by priests and physicists seeking out a method to resurrect human life at the atomic level.